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The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-04-23
NAPOLEON.

HIS GENIUs.-He thus grows passion
ate in the throes of the creator, absorbed
with bis creation that is to come, he al
ready anticipates and delights in occupy
ing his imaginary edifice. General"
said Madame de CleTmont Tonnerre to
him one day, "you are building behind
scaffolding which you will take down
when you have done with it." Yes,
madame, that's it," replied BoDaparte;
"you are right. | am always living two
years in advance" His response came
with incredible vivacity," as if an erup-
ton, the outburst of spirit affected in
its inmost fibre. Accordingly, on this
side, the power, the rapidity, the fecund-
ity, the play and the jet of his thought
seem unreasonable; what he has done is
astonishing, but what he has undertaken
is much more so; and whatever he may
have undertaken is far surpassed by what
he has imagined; however vigorous his
practical faculty, his poetical faculty is
stronger; it is even too vigorous for a
statesman; its grandeur is exaggerated
into enormity, and its enormity degen-
crates into madness. In Italy, after the
18th of Fructidor, he said to Bourrienne:
Europe is molehill; never have
there been great empires and great revo-
lutions, except in the Orient with its Co.,
100000 of men,"
Hrs PLACE IN HIsToRY.-While utter
ing this his eyes shine with strange brill
fancy, and he keeps ON accommodating
motive after motive, calculating obsta-
cles, means and chances; the inspiration
is under full Roadway, and he gives him
self up to it. The master faculty finds
itself suddenly free, and it takes flight;
the artist, encased in politics, escapes
from his trammels; he is creating out of
the ideal and the impossible. We take
him for what he is, posthumOus broth
er of Dante and Michael Angelo; in the
clear outlines of his vision, in the intens-
ity, the coherency, and the onward logic
of his reverie, in the profundity Of his
meditations, in the superhuman grandeur
of his conceptions, he is, indeed, their
fellow and their equal. His genius is of the
same stature and the same structure; he
is oneof the three sovereign minds of the
Italian Renaissance. Only, while the
first two operate on paper and on marble,
the latter operates on the living being, on
the sensitive and suffering flesh of hui
manity.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-04-23
AN OLD TIME NEW ENGLAND
DOCTOR.

DIR. John d. Meers, of Naugatuck, was
widely known as one of the most skillful
and successful physicians of his time.
His practice among the farmers was quite
extensive, and it was his custom to take
his pay for services in the produce of the
farms, seldom, or never keeping accounts
or making any charges, but sending for a
bushel Of potatoes or corn or barrel of
cider as he happened to want it. His drafts
on the farmers were always bonored on
sight, for he used TO say he "did not in
tend to overdraw," and, as the families in
those days were large and the children
quite as likely to be sick then as now, it
is quite likely that he paid his way for all
he received. He was always very careful
not to injure his patients, and gave very
little medicine, but if called TO see a man
who was little out Of sorts, would pre-
scribe diet of toast and cider, or some
thing equally simple, and leave nature to
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-04-23
PRINTERS AND COOKS.

One who travels much in this country
and stays at hotels gets the impression
that the hotel-keepers are much more
particular about choosing printer than
cook. Probably in no other country
are the bills of fare so fine, so elaborate,
so handsome as ours. They are often a fine
art and intellectual treat if person could
live on an intellectual treat no other
people would be so we'll fed at hotels as
we are. We do not spare language:
French, German, sometimes English, are
impressed into the service. The traveller
cannot always read his bill of fare, but
that is the fault of his education; and he
is lucky in one thing-if he cannot tel
what he is going to have, he is troubled
by no disappointment, for he can rarely
tell what he has had after he tastes it. A
clamor is now and then raised that the
people of the United States, so assertive
of their nationality and proud of their
language, ought to have their bills of
fare printed in English. The sufficient
reply is that they would not look as we'll,
not have so much "style," not seem to be
SO we'll worth the money. Sometimes a
mixture of languages has good effect,
for it adds intelligibility to the air of
good society. At recent banquet of the
Carpenters Union IN a large Western
city, the menu" among other curiosi-
ties. had this course: "Poissons: turkey,
buffalo tongue, sugar-cured ham," This
was naturally followed by hOrs d'oeuUre.
The introduction of a little French
enliyens a dinner, and in mixed COM
pany where there may be those whose
faith excludes them from eating pork, the
conscience may be quieted by eating ham
as fish. The hotels, by all means, should
keep up their style. 1t is easier to get
up handsome bill of fare than a good
dinner, and when it is inconvenient TO
have the latter, we cling to the former.
Those who want all the bills printed in
English are radicals, who would drag
down the bill to the level Of the dinner.
1t is said that good wine needs no bush,
and the time may come when a dinner
will need no bill of fare, or only one in
English; but We are not yet in the Mil
lennium. We are a reading people, and
it is much more important to our souls
that We should have something TO read
than something to eat.-Chdrles Dudley
Warner, fR Hdpers Magazine.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-04-23
AN AMERICAN SOLDIERS STORY.

Eyes, they had hard time of it there,''
says short, sallow, keen. eyed man, glanc-
ing over the illustrated newspaper which
contains an engraving of Mr.. Augustus
Van Cleefs fine monument to the sun
known dead" at Salisbury, North Caro-
lima. 81 guess [ ought to know some
thing of what the Southern prisons we're
like during the war for had five months
in Andersonville myself
In Pennsylvania train, among men
of whom not few had taken part in the
great struggle themselves, and who had
each and all one relative engaged in it,
command general attention. "No! did
you, thought
"S'pose you tell us the story, Mister;
there's time enough fore New York,
reckon"
"All right, if you care to hear it. You
see, when l first came over from England
the war was just about beginning, and
as there didn't seem to be anything for
me to do, thought I'd better soldier
than starve, so I went and listed right
away I wasn't long In finding out that
soldering and starving might sometimes
mean pretty much the same thing, for
rations were mighty scarce with us once
or twice when We got down on the Mis-
sissippi, l tell ye, after lying all night
in a rice swamp, stiff aud wet and miser-
able, with nothing to eat and only marsh
water to drink, it was just like the breath
of life to me to hear the alarm sounded,
and to know that we'd be at the enemy
in few minutes more"
At this moment pale, faced man who
was going from seat to seat with a basket
of newspapers and magazines, paused
for a moment to listen, and with look
of evident appreciation that it hardly re-
quired the testimony of his empty sleeve
to show that he, too, had been a soldier
in his time.
I'VE bad plenty of fighting down
there" pursued the narrator, as the
newspaper man passed on, "but most of
it was just the sort that l didn't like
skirmishing among thick woods, where
all you could see of the enemy was the
smoke Of his piece as he let fly at you,
and where lots of our fellows were shot
down without ever knowing what hurt
EN-. I'd pretty narrow escape myself
that way one light. [ was standing sem
try at the outposts when Reb let slap
at me from the thicket, and just caught
me across the cheek here; you see the
mark. got behind tree quick as
winking, and there 1 stuffed my jacket
with grass and put it up against a tree
with a stick through it and my cap on
top, to look as if was peering around
for shot and then I dropped down and
crawled away into the bushes. Pres
emily heard the crack of the Reb's
piece again, and looking out just caught
sight Of his arm and shoulder, and
brought him down with one shot.
swell, not long after that 1 and some
more got picked up by the Southern
cavalry, and it wasn't a great while be-
fore We all found ourselves hard and fast
in Andersonville; and there we had a
ime, sure enough.
"The place has been described so often
that dare say you have pretty good
idea what it was like. 1t was a great
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-04-23
GOLD POURED INTO THE SEA.

The memory of the loss of 100000 Of
silver and gold will survive the drowning
of one thousand souls in coup. There
was the Lutine, for instance. She was Of
thirty-two guns, commanded by Captain
SKINNER, and she went ashore on the
bank of the Fly Island passage on the
night of Oct 8, 1893. At first she was re-
puted to have had six hundred thousand
pounds sterling in specie on board. This
was afterward contradicted by a state
ment that "the return from the bullion
office makes the whole amount about
el40,000 sterling" eff" find in a con-
temporary account, "the wreck of the I'M
fortunate Lutine should be discovered,
there may be reason to hope for the re-
covery of the bullion"
In the reign of James II. some English
adventures fitted out vessel to search
for and weigh up the cargo of a rich
Spanish ship which had been lost on the
coast of South America They succeeded,
and brought home 100000, which had
been forty-four years at the bottom of
the sea. Captain Phipps, who command
ed, had 100000 for his share, and the
Duke of Albeparle 100000. A medal
was struck in honor Of this event in 1857.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-04-23

Mr.. George Bertram, the venera-
BILE Philadelphia grocer, who once attend
ed public banquet at which Sir Walter
Scott WAS a guest, says he remembers
little of that occasion, save that some
one, Peter Robertson, he thinks, proposed
the health of the author of "Waverly,
and Sir Walter responded. The great
novelist in his diary records on that even
ing and at that banquet Lord Meadow
bank taxed him with the authorship Of
the hitherto anonymous romances and he
confessed it.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-04-23
THE NOVELS THAT POISON.

That charming novelist, W. d. Howells,
who conducts the department in Har-
pers' Monthly Magazine known as "The
Editors Study" has some vigorous words
to say in regard to unwholesome novels:
"If novel hatters the passions and ex-
ats them above the principles, it is poi
sonous; it may not kill, but it will certain
ly injure; and this test will alone exclude
an entire class Of fiction, of which emin-
ent examples will occur to all. Then the
whole spawn of So called immoral ro-
mapces, which imagine a world where
the sins of sense are unvisited by the PEN
alties following, swift or slow, but mex
orably sure in the real world, are deadly
poison; these do kill. The novels that
merely tickle our prejudices and lull our
judgment, or that coddle our sepsibilities,
or pamper our gross appetite for the mar
velous, are not so fatal, but they are in
nutritious, and clog the soul with I'M
wholesome vapors OF all kinds. No doubt
they, too, help to weaken the mental fibre,
and make their readers Indifferent to
Flooding perseverance and plain indus
try, and to matter-of fact poverty and
commonplace distress"
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-04-23

Report says that Mr.. L. B. Aldrich
has dog trained to carry rolls OF MS.
sent in by would. be contributors to the
Atlantic Monthly and drop them into
the waste asket
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-04-23
THE BULLET OF THE FUTURE.

TIE BULLET Or he FO ~ REs
A German chemist has invented new
kind of an@sthetic bullet, which he urges
will, if brought in general use, greatly
diminish the horror OF war. The bullet
is of a brittle substance breaking direct
ly when it comes in contact with the OBJ
ject at which it is aimed 1t contains q
powerful an@sthetic, producing instan-
eously complete insensibility, lasting for
twelve hours, which, except that the ac-
ton of the heart continues, is not to be
distinguished from death. A battlefield
where these bullets are used will, in a
short time, be apparently covered with
dead bodies, but in reality merely with
the PROSTATE forms of soldiers reduced
for the time being to a state OF uncou-
seriousness. While in this condition they
may, the German chemist points out, be
packed in ambulance wagons and carried
off as prisoners.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-04-23
TRIBUTES TO SAKE.

His recent death makes appropriate the
republication OF his two poetic tributes
to the great humorist, written at widely
different times las well as in widely diff
ferent veins) by our esteemed contributor,
Rev. DR.. Percival.
The first was written only about a year
ago, and published in the Century of
June last. The second was published
thirty-five years ago in the old Louisville
Journal, during the halcyon days Of its
celebrated editor, the well-known wit,
politician and poet, George d. Prentice.
TO JOHN G. sAxE-lsS6.
o, genial SAKE, whose radiant wit
Flashed like the lightning from the sky;
But though each flash as keenly hit,
Wounded but what deserved to die
Alas! the cloud that shrouds thy day
In gathering darkness. fold on fold,
Serves not as background for the lay
Of those bright CLEANS that charmed of old;
For, from its depth whose terrors hide,
There crashed a bolt of dreadful tone;
Scattered the household treasures wide,
And left thee silent, bruised, alone.
We miss thy song this pleasant May;
And. in the meadows pause to think:
what if, amid their bright array,
We heard no voice of bobolinkr'
Yet charms not now his blithesome lay,
Nor howery mead, Gin verdure clad"
The world that laughed when thou vert gay,
Now weeps to know that thou art sad.
SAXON EPIGRAMs; OR EPIGRAMs ON sAxE-lSS2
d. me Wit is like a cofee-planter,
Whose frugal hand is never lax.
Whatever crop the seasons grant her,
She puts it all away in SAKE.
Whoever the wine of wit would drink
OF Saxe's fagon smacks on,
Wherever the Anglo-Saxons think
They think New England axe on.
But though with a new and sparkling zest
His racy wit is quaffed at,
I'm sorry the truth must be confe ssed;
Wherever tits drank tits laughed at!
III.
That we have many sacks is true
AS wool-sacks 1our-sacks pea-saclls:
And we have sacks of poets. too,
But only one John G. Sake
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1887-02-04
Probate Order.
STATE OF MICHIGAN, / Sc

vi CO
COUNTY OF SHAW assoc.
At a session of the Probate Court for the County
of Shiawassee holden at the Probate Office, in the
City of Corunna, on Thursday the 2:th day of Jan
uary In the year one thousand eight hundred and
eighty-seven.
Present, A. A.. Harper, Judge OF Probate.
In the Matter OF the Estate of Morris Brown,
deceased.
On reading and filing the petition, duly verified
Of Isabel Brown, praying that administration OF
the estate OF said deceased may be granted to her
or some other suitable person.
Thereupon IL is Ordered, that Friday, the 18th
day Of February next, at ten o'clock in the FL
noon, be assigned for the hearing OF said petition
and that the heirs at law of said deceased, and al
other persons interested In said estate, are required
to appear at a session of said Court, then TO be
holden at the Probate Office, In the City Of Cor
unna and show cause, IL any. there be, why the
prayer of the petitioner should not be granted.
And IL is Further Ordered, that said petitioner
give notice TO the persons Interested in said estate
OF the pendcncy Of said petition. and the hearing
thereof by causing a copy of this order to be pub.
lished in THE TIMES, u newspaper printed and
circulated In said County OF ShiawGssee for three
successive weeks, previous to said day Of hearing.
a TRUE cry A. A. HARPER,
Judge of Probate,
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1887-02-04

A Democratic journal says: at is
said to be a fact that more money is
paid out to the hands in the iron and
steel works of which Mr.. Andrew
Carnegie is the head than is paid in
wages at the great Krupp gun works
in Germany, where 10000 men are
employed as against 5000 in the
Carnegie works in and near Pitts
burg" And yet that same Demo-
cratic journal is doing its best to de-
stroy the American protective system
which enables 5000 men in Pennsyl-
vania to earn more money than 10000
earn in the same business in Ger
many. The German men work on
the average two hours per day more
than the American. The public, es.
pecially the workingmen, ought to
understand these facts.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1887-02-04

gave John ksirden a87 votes, anc
John +. Gudenau asS votes.
Sth. That The ballot boxes of said
three voting districts were Sent fol
by your committee, and a re counl
Of the ballots contained therein was
made. That such re. count showed
that contestant Rairden and contestes
Gudenau received votes at said cleo
lion in said three voting districts, as
follows, viz:
In the Ist district OF the 9th ward
John Rairden received a8I votes, and
John +. Gudenau received a37 votes;
IN the 4th district of the 9th ward
John Rairden received ais votes, and
John F. Gudenau received IT'S votes;
in the ed district of the 9Th ward,
John Ralrden received 500 votes, and
Sohn +. Gudenau received ss7 votes.
9th. That the total vpte. as shown
by the returns, from said three voting
districts, credited contestant Rairden
and contestee Gudenau with votes as
follows:
The three districts, as shown by
the returns, gave John Rairden 7s6
votes ana John f. Gudenau GA
votes.
9TH. Tine re count Of the votes
contained in said ballot boxes of sad
three voting districts, shows that
John Rairden received a total vote in
said three districts of Sos, and John
+. Gudenau received a total vote in
said three districts of Cog.
Sth That contestant Rairden's
majority, in three said voting districts
as shown by the returns, and credited
to him by the canvassers was 80, and
his majority, as shown by a re count
of the ballots, is 1876, making a
change In favor of Rairden of 50
votes; from which deduct contestee
Gudenau's majority, as given by the
board of canvassers, 40, leaves u
majority in favor Of contestant Kair
den Of IA.
Your committee, therefore find
that John +. Gudenau was not elect
ed as Senator in the State legislature
from the iirst senatorial district of
the State OF Michigan, and that John
Rairden was elected as Senator in
the State legislature from the first
district Of the State of
M;chir an, and that he, John Rairden,
is entitled to a seat as such Senator.
JAY A HUBBELI.,
Chairman Committee on Judiciary.
The report and the resolution seat
ing Mr.. Rairden were adopted by a
vote Of "a to 7 The negative votes
being all from Democrat Senators.
Yet the ablest Democrat in the SEN
ate and one of the best lawyers in
the Saginaw valley, Mr.. Wisner, voted
with the Republicans, and was one of
the members of the Judiciary COM
mittee that submitted the report.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1887-02-04
It is Now in the lands Of the People

AS The TIMES predicted, immedi-
alely after the result of the November
election was known, the Legislature
by the necessary two thirds vote, has
adopted the following
JOINT RESOLUTION,
proposing an amendment to Article
4 Of the Constitution of this State
relative to the liquor traffic:
Resoiued BY the Senate and House
Of Rebyesenkah0es @ tie State @Aheh-
fgan, That there shall be submitted
10 the electors Of this State, for their
approval M rejection, the following
amendment to the Constitution OF
this State, to stand as section 40 OF
Article 4:
SEC. 4o. The manufacture, gift, or
sale Of spirituous, malt, or vinous
liquors in this State, except for me.
dicinal, chemical, or scientific pur-
poses is prohibited, and no property
rights in such spirituous, malt, or
vincus liquors shall be deemed to
exist, except the right to manufacture
or sell for medicinal, mechanical,
chemical, or scientific purposes under
such restrictions and regulations as
may be provided by law. The Legis-
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1887-02-04
Probate Order.

STATE OF MICHIGAN, L.
COUNTY OF SnIAwAsSEE. 81
At a session OF the Probate Court for the County
of Shiawassee, holden ut the Probate Office, in the
City of Corunna. on Thursday, the 2otl, day OF jan
uary in the year one thousand eight hundred
and eighty-seven.
Present, A. A.. Harper, Judge Of Probate.
In the Matter Of the Estate Of Mary Disbrougb,
deceased.
On reading and filing the petition. duly verified,
OF James ii. Disbrough, one OF the heirs of said de
ceased praying for a partition Of the real estate OF
said deceased as described in said petition amongst
the heirs o. said estate.
Thereupon it is Ordered, That Friday, the 18th
day Of February next, at ten o'clock In the FORE
noon, be assigned for the hearing OF said petition,
and that the heirs at law Of said deceased, and all
other persons interested in said estate, are required
to appear at q session OF said Court then to be heiden
at the Probate Office in the City of CoYunna and
show cause, II any there be, why the prayer Of the
petitioner should not granted.
And II Further Ordered, that said petitioner
give notice to the persons interested In said estate,
OF the tendency Of said petition. and the hearing
thereof by causing a copy Of this order TO be pub
lished in THE TIMES, a newspaper printed and
circulated In said County OF Shiawassee for three
successive weeks, previous to said day of hearing.
"a TRUE coPY9 A. HARPER.
Judge of Probate.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1887-02-04
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